PayPhones As WiFi Spots: How Smart

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 09: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference, with the CEO of AT&T Randall Stephenson, to announce the installation of free Wi-Fi service this summer in 20 New York City parks on June 9, 2011 in New York City. AT&T, which will maintain the service for a five-year period, plans to complete all the locations by the Fall. The 26 wireless internet hot spots in 20 parks will cover all the five boroughs. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots

The hotspots are initially coming to ten payphones in three of the boroughs and will be open to the public to access for free.

10 is not enough, all I got to say. Okay to run ads. Just get it out to every single payphone booth out there. This will encourage people to ditch their careers in some cases. They will simply walk over to the nearest payphone stall to make a call over wifi.

10 is only not enough, it is misleading. People might get the news and walk over to some payphone booth only to realize there is no wifi. How inappropriate!

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Declaration of Internet Freedom

The Big Data Landscape

Source: Forbes

Search --> Social --> Mobile --> Big Data

Image via CrunchBase

Google won search. Facebook won social. Android is going to win mobile. Who will win Big Data? Is Big Data the next big thing on par with search, social and mobile? I take it for granted it is. In fact, I take that already to be the industry wisdom.

Fred Wilson: Mobile Is Where The Growth Is: In technology the more things change, the more they stay the same. You cannot ever rest. Because the big change that is going to upset your nice apple cart is right around the corner. Today that is mobile. Tomorrow, who knows? I am trying like hell to figure out what that will be and jump on it. Because that's how you play this game.

Considering Google+ has tremendous momentum. And Google is already hard at work on Big Data, Google as a company ends up looking really, really good.

I have long been a Google fanboy, like people are Apple fanboys.

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